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1. Add MS 29729

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Add MS 29729
Title:
John Stowe, collection of verse by Lydgate and others
Scope & Content:
Collection of poems by John Lydgate (c. 1370–1449/50?), poet and prior of Hatfield Regis, and others. Chiefly in the hand of John Stowe (1524/5–1605), historian. Copied from a lost manuscript by John Shirley (c. 1366–1456), author, translator and scribe (see Brusendorff, The Chaucer Tradition, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1558
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 36544

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Scope & Content:
CHURCH PAPERS. Vol. II. (ff. 369). Correspondence, relating to Greece, with English friends and other Philhellenes; 1822-1829. The series begins with a long letter (3 Sept. 1822) from Sir R. Church to his brother John Dearman Church. Extracts of other letters written before starting are in the b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
1822-1829
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 36545

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Add MS 36545
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Scope & Content:
CHURCH PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 328). Feb.-June, 1827. Alexandre Mavrocordato, Secretary of State, Greece: Correspondence with Sir R. Church: 1827-1834.: Fr. includes: f. 1 Giovanni Orlando: Letter to Sir R. Church: 1826.: Ital. f. 1 André Luriottis, Greek Deputy in London: Letter to Sir R. Chur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
Feb 1827-Jun 1827
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 36547

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Add MS 36547
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Scope & Content:
CHURCH PAPERS. Vol. V. (ff. 204). 1828, 1829. Count Viaro Capodistria: Letters to Sir R. Church: 1827-1828.: Fr. includes: f. 7 Thebes, Greece: Petitions of inhabitants of, to Sir. R. Church: 1827, 1828.: Gr. f. 10 Nikephoros Nezerites: Letter to Sir R. Church: 1828.: Gr. ff. 14, 24 Georgios ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:
1828-1829
Extent:
1 item

5. Egerton MS 1781

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Egerton MS 1781
Title:
Translations of religious and epic texts, dindshenchas and other historical material
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts including religious tracts, saints' Lives, epics and historical material. A detailed catalogue description is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, I, pp. 526-45. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Legend of the invention of the Holy Cross. Begins imperfectly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1484-1487
Extent:
1 volume

6. Papyrus 1793

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Papyrus 1793
Title:
Receipt (P.Lond. V 1720, TM 19735), and Statement as to Pledged Articles (Crum ST 439, TM 47601)
Scope & Content:
The recto, in Greek, contains a receipt for the full price of an earring deposited as security for a debt. Dated: 3 February 549. Nonna had borrowed an unknown amount of money from Maria and had left a pair of earrings with her as security. She now sells them to Maria for 8 solidi in cash. The r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Coptic and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
6th century
Extent:
Papyrus sheet of light colour, written on both sides, folded from right to left. On recto, written along the fibres in Greek. 1 column of text, 18 lines. On the verso written against the fibres in Coptic. The surface of the papyrus on verso side is abraded and damaged at the vertical foldlines and a hole interrupts the lower centre; 1 column of text; the Coptic text has 15 lines.